WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to competition, wireless phones are everywhere, long-distance rates lower, Web connections faster. When it comes to local phone service, however, most Americans do not get to ...

C H I C A G O, March 21 -- Susan Kubira has a cell phone growing out of her ear. Not literally, of course, but Kubira, owner of a small business in the Chicago suburbs, uses nothing but her wireless ...

As early as 1915, the American Telephone & Telegraph Company — now AT&T — discussed developing a wireless phone. According to the company's internal memos, the plan was scrapped ...